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have their sanguinary design executed, by which he was seized of no less than nine arrows: Which occurrence in lower degree would enforce many to retire; but in state of that he shewed such splendid courage that he swimed over that of the river near Killin’s Inn, in that posture, to his habitate, to have himself extricated of the arrows. The day after that fatal day, a valiant number of Breadalbane people, or tenants, went after the ravishers, and took the prey back, after killing the ravishers utterly, except about two escaped.
At a short space after that bloody engagement, a young child viewing about the mountain for what would appear of the dissipated scattered cattle, occasioned by that fatal event, the direction of his search conducted him toward a little house build on a shealing, of which he was amazed, overhearing groaning as a person were afflicted on a bed of languishing. Upon his entry to the hovel, who discovered but one of the wound ravishers leaving there by the rest, being impatient in cause of lassitude bearing him, on whom he perceived part of his father’s garments, who fell in the fatal action. Upon challenged the same as claimant, the wounded ravisher reply:
